Privacy is an important thing. I mostly like my own privacy and I try to be respectful of the privacy of others. It was then, with some interest that I discovered that my iPhone had been tracking my movements by triangulation of network cells, and with a bit more interest that I discovered that the data could be easily mapped.…
An individual can never know the path that life will take them, we can try to control events but we all know that unexpected opportunities, gifts and challenges can change that that path. Work/life is a pastiche of a classic Pentagram piece that acts as a metaphor for the unfolding story of life. The poster was designed for the University…
I run an iPhone and an Android phone and i used to have the very easy google sync running directly from my mac to my google account and then from the google account to my Android phone, until Apple and Google (who knows who’s decision it was) decided to put a stop to that… bit of a shame as the…
Introduction This is the presentation I gave at the wearable futures conference 2012 (www.wearablefutures.com) organised by the Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology research centre at University of Wales Newport. Ill be giving an expanded version at Innov_Ex 2012 on 16th April 2012 and then working the whole thing up into a full paper to be presented at the Textile Institute…
From Terry White (terrywhitetechblog) In this episode – how to use the NEW Folio Builder Tools in InDesign CS 5.5 to take your interactive document from InDesign to your iPad or Android tablet. This start to finish video will walk you through all the steps including sharing your Folio with others.
Ive always liked palindromes – ever since my school geology teacher introduced me to the correct name for marram grass halfway up a mountain in the Lake District on a quest for an interesting lump of rock. I recently discovered that sophisticated palindromes were experimented with in Sanskrit poetry. Complex palindromes appear in the 19th canto of the 8th-century epic…
Some of the places I have travelled to in pursuit of extreme experiences have also been some of the most beautiful, often in harsh climatic climatic conditions, often very dry. The ability of plants to survive in these conditions has always been surprising, and the plants themselves fantastic, often spiky, rubbery or smooth on the outside. These vector visualisations from…
Just heard that my paper proposal for the Textile Institute World Conference 2012 in Malaysia has been accepted…. The title and abstract is reproduced here: Title: Embedding Design in the Process of Communication of Functionality in Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology to the Active Ageing Consumer Abstract: The development of market ready Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology (SCWT) for the…
I stumbled across this comment in a forum the other day (sorry I cant remember where it was), and it made me smile. I know I shouldn’t take the mickey, as it is much better attempt at English than my own derisory second language skills, but it just tickled me…. [quote]And the shopkeeper told me that the card is of…
One for all the students out there. An excellent short article on passive vs active writing http://www.lavc.edu/wcweb/activepassive.html I have copied the complete text here for those who cant be bothered to click through to the original site: Active and passive voices refer to the relationship between the subject and the verb. In an active sentence, the subject is doing something.…